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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1940
As The Kansan Sees It . . .
- Letters To The Editor
The Cyclists Complain
Dear Editor:
In reference to the letter from Messrs. Brady, Bowers, et al, it would seem they don't appreciate the motorcyclists.
What is it they don't like about motorcyclists? Is it the men themselves? If so, they ought to get acquainted with a typical motorcyclist and see what a fine fellow he is. He is the same fellow whether he is on or off the machine.
Or is it the machine itself they don't like? Does it make too much noise to suit them? It was the sound of the exhaust that Caesar always was barking at and not the person riding the machine. True, he would nip at the rider, but only in trying to persuade him to turn off the mechanism making that annoying noise. The owner doesn't put a straight pipe on his machine to annoy anyone, but because that exhaust is music to his ears.
Do Brady, Bowers, et all, think a motorcycle is dangerous? The fact is that a motorcycle is not as dangerous as a car—it has more maneuverability, better brakes, and vision than a car. The thing that makes a motorcycle dangerous is that most people don't realize what one can do. They think of a motorcycle as a glamorized motorbike. The boys of the "motorcycling brotherhood" realize their machines' potentialities, and drive accordingly.
To sum this up, I think motorcycling is a wonderful sport and motorcyclists are wonderful fellas.
I am not criticizing the men who do not like motorcyclists, but giving them some of the facts of motorcycling.
Bill Harman College junior
Editor's Note: I am sure the men to whom you refer have nothing against the men who drive motorcycles. But if they are like a great many automobile drivers, what they don't like is the way in which some motorcyclists risk other people's necks by darting in and out of traffic and continually violating many of the rules by which
automobile drivers, and supposedly motorcycle drivers, are bound.
Probably the percentage of careless motorcycle drivers is not any greater than that of motor car drivers, it just seems that way because they are more conspicuous. I am just offering the above as possible explanation of the attitude taken by the "pro-Caesar" men. Certainly both types of drivers have a lot of room for improvement. With this letter, the cycle should be complete.
Chalk Talk
This columnist is not trying to crusade, but the writer has noticed that since an account was printed telling of the cigarette in the hand of one of the statues in the classics museum, the cigarette has disappeared. Not only that, but the name plates on some of the pieces of art have been dusted.
Either someone is mighty hard up for a fag, or the A.S.C. is on that long awaited clean-up.
One professor who is noted for the number of quizzes and outside assignments he gives to his classes, said, "There are few things which give a man as much enjoyment as receiving a Ph.D." A student commented:
"Do you earn that degree if you pass this course without having a nervous breakdown?"
Since this column was revived, students have suggested that the writer: 1. Start a movie review series; 2. Have short personality sketches of professors (in satire); 3. Conduct a contest to find a "Chalk Talk queen"; 4. Have an exchange of humor with other college dailies.
The women who have recently been initiated into sororities are quite shocked to find they still are required to attend library study halls. It seems the girls had visions of gay convertible rides over the campus on lovely spring days.
One campus restaurant owner complains that each night he awakens at 10 minutes before each hour. "I keep dreaming of that mad whistle rush for coffee," he said.
Perhaps You Can Nationalize Snakes, But These Guys Weren't Eager To Try
Johnny Jayhawk wishes to point out that: 1. There are not enough shows in town to allow for selectivity; 2. The type of satire which could be written about pro-
But they nearly backed out of the door when he lifted a snake by the tail and showed them how to "milk" the venom into a jar.
Prague—(U.P.)—Czechoslovakia's nationalization of private enterprise hit a small snag when it encountered a snake farmer, Dr. Frantisek Kornalik.
They squirmed a bit when he fed them, snakes some of the white mice he had.
After a few days, the authorities
Dr. Kormalik keeps 500 poisonous snakes in pens in the basement of his three-story stone house on the outskirts of Prague. He and his 22-year-old son use the snakes' venom for neuralgia, rheumatism, arthritis, allergy and tumor medicines came back and told Dr. Kormalik
A few days later more officials with brief cases came to explain to Dr. Kornalick how the newly-nationalized business should be run.
Two men with brief cases came to his house. They told him that they were from S.P.O.F.A. (the nationalized drug industry) and that business now belonged to the state.
Their duty, they said, was to take an inventory of his business.
"My alligator, Honsa, was a real puzzle to the inventory takers," the short, white-haired chemist said. "First they nationalized him when they learned he was an experimental subject and that he drew a special meat ration."
"But they never did find out how many snakes I had—they were afraid to look into the pens," Dr. Koralnick said.
The officials were kept busy half a day counting the lizards, frogs, and turtles which Dr. Kornalick keeps in pens in the hall, kitchen and on the stairway leading to his third-floor laboratory.
"But they made him my private property again when they saw he slept under the kitchen table and was a family pet."
came back and told Dr. Kornalick he could run his own business. He could take a manager's salary out of the income from the sale of the medicaments, but the profits were to go to the nationalized drug industry.
They couldn't decide what salary a snake-keeper should get, so they told Dr. Kernalik to borrow what he needed from the medicine income until a salary was set.
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Former Student Works With Video
Video, television in popularized terms, is now being invaded by K.U. talent. Edwin Read, University student in 1945, recently became video control supervisor for the National Broadcasting company in Chicago, Fred Ellsworth, alumni association secretary, said today.
Mr. Read, who now lives in Clarendor Hills, Ill., was formerly associated with N.B.C. as a television engineer in New York city. While in Lawrence Mr. Read worked at KFKU and later with WREN.
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